California · Nonprofit
MARIN COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES
MARIN COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,311,430 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ASSOCIATION ($792,588). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Marin Court Appointed Special Advocates does
Mission
Marin casa provides a voice for abused, neglected and abandoned youth in the marin county juvenile court system. Our goal is to see every youth thrive in a safe, permanent and supportive home. As sworn officers of the court, our volunteer advocates are responsible for making recommendations for the safety, permanence and well-being of every marin casa youth. By building a consistent and supportive relationship with each youth, marin casa makes a difference one youth at a time.our volunteers advocate for their youth's critical needs including: medical, dental, mental health and educational services as well as permanent planning and placement. A casa volunteer stays with their youth until his/her case has gone through the entire court process. Casa volunteers understand and know how to work within the youth welfare and court systems to uphold the best interests of youth.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The marin casa program is appointed to all dependency cases as well as additional probation and probate cases in the marin county juvenile court system. The marin casa program recruits, screens, trains and supervises all volunteers who play a critical role in providing a voice for youth ages 0-21 throughout the entire court process.in 2024, 66 casa volunteers advocated for 81 youth. Casas provided over 3,066 hours of voluntary advocacy services.
$332,194 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $332,194.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.1M to $1.5M (+43%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 14% · 2018 25% · 2019 24% · 2020 45% · 2021 46% · 2022 48% · 2023 58% · 2024 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of MARIN COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $187k → $450k.
12 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of MARIN COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
MARIN COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund MARIN COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 31% · 2019 47% · 2020 48% · 2021 46% · 2022 25% · 2023 45% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
45% of MARIN COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
88% of MARIN COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
MARIN COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like MARIN COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
52% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MARIN COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MARIN COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES?
- MARIN COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,311,430 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ASSOCIATION ($792,588). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARIN COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $2,311,430 in grants to MARIN COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARIN COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES?
- CALIFORNIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $792,588 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARIN COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 28 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing